For this international MUN student, Inuit art exhibit is a chance to unlearn and relearn region’s culture

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March 27th 2022

 

For this international MUN student, Inuit art exhibit is a chance to unlearn and relearn region’s culture

 

Leisha Toory is a political science major at Memorial University. She lives in St. John’s.

 

“I recently went to The Rooms in St. John’s, to see a new exhibition I had been looking forward to viewing, called Helping Hands: 30 Years at Kinngait Studios.

 

Master printmaker William Ritchie kept a copy of every print he worked on at the studio in Nunavut. His donation of nearly 400 prints — by dozens of Inuit artists — is one of the largest and most significant ever made to The Rooms, the cultural complex that houses Newfoundland and Labrador’s provincial gallery, museum and archives. ”

 

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